[3] On 18 February 1824 Lord Wellington, Maxwell, master, was sailing into Newry with a cargo of coal from Liverpool.

[4] A report from Liverpool dated 8 March stated that Lord Wellington, Maxwell, master, which had gone on shore at Carlingford Bay, had been gotten off without damage, and without suffering from leaks.

By the 17th several of the passengers who had left the ship were dead or ill, and several passengers or crew were also dead or ill. That day Lord Wellington sailed for Milford Haven, one of three ports designated for vessels requiring quarantine due to illness aboard.

[6][7] At Waterford the inhabitants shunned the ill Captain Culleton had landed until a clergyman persuaded them to render assistance.

When Lord Wellington arrived at Milford Haven the physicians that came on board discovered bodies on deck.